Ronald: "'I want, I want, I want', well that makes her an interesting character Ally. When you print your life story, I will be waiting in line atthe bookstore, but for a partner? I don't know if I want to sign up with a person who knows she'll be wanting forever."

Ronald: "That's just you all over, the day you stop wanting Ally is the day you begin to die. You go through people, you'll go through me.

Ally: "That's just so, so..."

Ronald: "...True."

Ally: "You're saying I'm the kind of person that can never be happy?"

Ronald: "I think you'll know more happiness than most. You just won't be content."

Ally McBeal

"You're like a full time job and I had to go through 1000 interviews."

this day in 2009

I miss Italy today. This time last year, I was struggling through a 7,000 word paper, and for amusement I stole my housemate's wooden cat and we left ransom notes around the palazzo.  I'd forgotten about this one.  It read wear your stiletto boots and bring cookies "in class or else your cat will lose a limb every day." Before hiding it in a cabinet, we hung it from a shower and made a ransom video.  Yea, we were that tired of writing papers. She never gave into our demands, I never pulled the limbs off.

I've handed out my fair share of unfiltered 2 a.m. intoxicated declarations.  What is it about those after hours moments, that we get this need to say precisely what's on our mind, even if in the morning after, we end up running back on everything we wrote or said, and apologizing profusely.

But for what?  In our moments of candor, we say these things we mean, but would never otherwise vocalize because we live behind these stuffy filters, for fear of rejection, for fear of a reaction, for fear of making the other person uneasy, or maybe they'll think we're completely weird.

Someone once told me, when you say something, and you mean it, don't take it back just because you're utterly mortified hours later.


My filter's never been too good, and I kind of like it that way.



Anyway, these are some I've received recently, that kind of stuck.  We don't say shit like this on the daily.  On this point, I know people say, oh, well they were drunk, but you see, it's in those moments, in that insistence to say, whatever they wanted to say, that makes it real.  Even if, only for that moment.


08.22.2009 – 4:41 a.m.

"fyi you are epic."

12.22.2009 – 1:25 a.m.

"i think i miss you."

03.20.2010 – 2:14 a.m.

"i need you to know how very platonically I love you. I love you like I love italy. And that's not to be taken lightly."

"We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented, it's as simple as that."

The Truman Show

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

marilyn monroe

"I think I miss you," he says.

"Sometimes you just need to let go and move on."

That's what they tell me.

sweetness never suits me.

"I think i could make an exception this one time."

"How gracious of you."

"I do try sir."